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Senate passes bill on nursing home reviews, rejects Democrats’ calls for more oversight

on Wed, 04/09/2025 - 23:54   by Anonymous

by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
April 8, 2025

The Iowa Senate passed a bill clarifying some parts of the process for the state’s review of “immediate jeopardy” violations at Iowa nursing homes, but did not approve changes suggested by Democratic senators to increase oversight and regulation over care facilities in the state.

House File 309, passed 39-9 Tuesday, was described by the bill’s floor manager Sen. Kara Warme, R-Ames, as a small, technical correction to a law passed in 2024 on Iowa nursing home oversight. In 2024, the Legislature approved a measure requiring the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing, the state entity charged with nursing home oversight, to allow nursing homes to review potential citations for substandard care and placing residents in immediate jeopardy of serious injury or death.

No state fines for alleged abuse and ‘unsafe’ staffing levels at Iowa nursing home in Shenandoah

on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 02:47   by Clark Kauffman

by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch
September 18, 2024

The state of Iowa has suspended $47,500 in fines against a southwest Iowa nursing home cited for inadequate staffing and the physical and verbal abuse of residents.

According to state inspectors, although the Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah has insufficient staff on hand, the home’s director of nursing recently informed them she was being pressured by management to make further cuts in staffing due to budget constraints — adding that she felt doing so was “unrealistic and unsafe.”

Garden View is owned by an out-of-state real estate investment trust that is designed to provide investors with returns tied to the profits generated by dozens of nursing homes in Iowa and other states.

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